Cycling Union appoint independent commission

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has appointed three people including a war crimes investigator to sit on an independent commission to look into allegations of wrongdoing in the past.

The Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CIRC) will be chaired by Switzerland’s former state prosecutor Dick Marty and will include Peter Nicholson, an Australian who has investigated war crimes for the United Nations.

Professor Ulrich Haas from Germany, a specialist in anti-doping rules who works for the Court of Arbitration for Sport, is the third person on the commission, UCI president Brian Cookson announced yesterday.